The Mediterranean was thought to be land-locked at one time due to water being stored in an ice cap. It is thought that at some time the rise in water levels breached the Straits of Gibraltar thus opening the Mediterranean to a rise in water level.

Check out Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile for the fictionalized version of this explanation.

Victor Davis Hanson was a very good and interesting guest of Mark Levin on @FoxNews. He wrote a highly touted book called “The Second World Wars” and a new book will soon be coming out called “The Case For Trump.” Recommend both. @marklevinshow

I saw that game too!
Got home during the ?fourth? over time. No way was I not going to witness that record-setting event. Though I was starting to wonder if it would ever end...

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I'm not buying the Nikki Haley "i did it all for love" story yet either. I'd recently heard her very genuinely and naturally thank her husband for making that whole NYC/UN thing happen. Didn't sound to me like he was making it happen from another apartment.

Seems like it would be extremely challenging for the mother of two to have had the time to date while married while UN Ambassador.

I will be in Gulfport and Tupelo, Mississippi, on Monday night doing two Rallies for Senator Hyde-Smith, who has a very important Election on Tuesday. She is an outstanding person who is strong on the Border, Crime, Military, our great Vets, Healthcare & the 2nd A. Needed in D.C.

Migrants at the Southern Border will not be allowed into the United States until their claims are individually approved in court. We only will allow those who come into our Country legally. Other than that our very strong policy is Catch and Detain. No “Releasing” into the U.S...

....All will stay in Mexico. If for any reason it becomes necessary, we will CLOSE our Southern Border. There is no way that the United States will, after decades of abuse, put up with this costly and dangerous situation anymore!

The large and violent French protests don’t take into account how badly the United States has been treated on Trade by the European Union or on fair and reasonable payments for our GREAT military protection. Both of these topics must be remedied soon.

Would be very SMART if Mexico would stop the Caravans long before they get to our Southern Border, or if originating countries would not let them form (it is a way they get certain people out of their country and dump in U.S. No longer). Dems created this problem. No crossings!

Was anyone aware that there have been a large number of corruption indictments out of Arkansas? I was not.

This is a long article detailing them, including who and what for. (My personal favorite is the guy who hid illegal campaign donations and bribes as donations to the Methodist church where he was the pastor!)

Thinking of building a fallback like that "Seed Bunker" in far north Norway. We could live there and calls us The Seeds of Liberty. Will not take the place of Jane's Island but might be more survivable.

During an afternoon interview at the National Palace, President Morales said that Guatemala has absorbed the huge cost of mobilizing police and military to return thousands of people to Honduras. He would like the United States to help him find the organizers of the caravan so they can face legal consequences. “Mass immigration like this endangers lives,” Morales said. “This is unprecedented. We are in the process of investigating who is behind the caravan.” Morales assures that Guatemala is doing everything possible to curb illegal immigration and asked for cooperation from the United States.

identify the support chain on this side of the border. that will flush the roaches that are on the other side supporting coyotes, caravan organizers, and other mooch groups that aid and abet border jumpers.

take off the gloves.

glad to hear POTUS directness about closing the Southern border to immigrants. have to assume the "daily work" crossers would be allowed through.

time to get tougher. how are the narcos handling these developments? no mention of closing tunnels and arresting US citizens who abet tunnelers on their properties.

Pres back at his Trump Intl Golf Club in FL again this morning. 5th day in a row. He is scheduled to return to DC later in the day. He's back on the road on Monday to do 2 campaign rallies in Mississippi for @cindyhydesmith, in a Senate runoff Tuesday against @espyforsenate.

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I am glad he has gotten to play some golf. The guy needs a break once in a while.

Caught the Metro this rainy overcast day up to the Arc de Triomphe and paid rhe 12 Euro fee to climb all 200+ steps up the darn thing to look in vain for significant Protester damage, but most of it had been bulldozed aside in the early morning. Only saw 5 Yellow Vesters total, totally eclipsed by a dozen Blue Paddy Wagons lined up along the Champs across the street from the Arch, and probably a hundred body armored Gendarmes stationed around the monument, most carrying their black batons and some variety of dangerous looking firearm at the ready. From the Arc's rooftop the Eiffel Towers top was lost in the fog, so a very dreary day indeed.

Along the curbs of some of the streets radiating out from the Arc De Triomohe for a few blocks you could see where the makeshift barricades the protesters had dragged up had been bulldozed aside, now clobbering the bus lanes, but no biggie and the Town seemed totally back to normal with Tour Buses running etc, the only thing different than normal being that the topic of conversation was nothing but hundreds of "Looky Louy's" like me wondering where was the damage? Shakespeare's Used Bookstore next, then a brief in and out of the Cathedral, then off to supposedly meet mates at the Great Canadian. Personally I consider it only the "So So, Canadian"," but they've had Lagunitas on tap lately and their Wifi is damn good, even if their chow ain't.

Now I am back at my fav Cafe across from the Cathedral, shivering outdoors under the awning, but loving the misty view and the chacuterie. Ciao.

Good morning. Reading jnj’s thoughts on the earth’s and man’s interactions last night, I would like to emphasize again the best source for ‘getting your feet wet’ on the whole subject: Graham Hancock. I’ve never run across anyone else that pulls back to see the 30,000 ft view quite like him. He also seeks out individual experts on specific niche subjects while tying the big picture all together. He has done something like 20 books on various aspects of man’s history and the way the earth has influenced it. Underworld focuses on civilizations before the various floods after the last ice age when the nominal sea level was about 400 ft below today’s. My comment on the Younger Dryas was covered in one of his most recent: Magicians of the Gods. He is about as close to an investigative reporter as you can get on what happened to us in (pre)history.

After years of travelling, exploring archaeological sites and rummaging through puzzles in ancient myths and legends I have found many reasons to suspect that the orthodox theory of human prehistory – the one that is taught in all our schools and universities – is seriously in error. The theory takes many different local forms with endless variations, but the backbone in all cases is the same: an entrenched belief system about the human condition and about our collective past in which modern advanced civilisation is seen as the product of thousands of years of linear social and technological evolution – “onwards and upwards,” as my friend John West likes to caricature the orthodox view, “from stupid old cave men to smart old us”.

I write my books to try to show that an alternative view can fruitfully be considered. Human society may indeed have evolved in a straight and essentially unbroken line from primitive to “smart” – just as the historians say – but it is also possible that there could have been major discontinuities in the record which have severely distorted and “edited” the data about the past that historians work with. For some reason that I have honestly never been able to understand properly, historians bitterly resent any such suggestion. They insist that although they may have made some mistakes in the minor details they are undoubtedly correct in the overall picture that they paint for us of history and prehistory. I’ve tried to show how seriously wrong this attitude could be and to gather together as much evidence as possible to support the view that a great “lost” civilisation could have flourished far back in remote antiquity and that it could have been so completely destroyed that its very existence was eventually forgotten.

Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, is on the verge of settling a case brought by a former employee who claims the university included faked data in applications and reports for federal grants worth nearly $200 million.

That's a good find. I check the Q threads every once in a while because occasionally someone will dig up some important investigative stuff. However, I long ago quit believing most of it, especially when they got into dream interpretations, JFK junior still being alive, etc.

Funniest to me in the comments was the one which said Q was followed by mostly old people. LOL!